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Is that a thing? How does one even do that?

Oh, I'm not a sign maker or contract printer. We print fabrics and we have some special needs that dramatically increases our ink usage. Based on my research on the HP Latex Line: Its 17.5c / mL with the 775mL cartridges used in the 560 Its 12.5c / mL with the 3L boxes used in the 570 Its 8c /...

Does anyone happen to know how cheap ink could potentially get with the giant semi-truck sized printers? I read one review somewhere saying one of the giant EFI models was 4 cents / sq ft, but I can't imagine what the quality looks like. By comparison, the super giant Latex 3000+ is about 8.5...

I can't seem to find where to do that in the manual. Is it quick to explain?

I can't just copy paste one profile and go in and change one number? Could I use the same ICC as the original or does that change too?

I have a HP Latex 560 with Onyx 12.1. I was able to find a 10 pass profile for my material but that's it. I would like to be able to do some test prints with various numbers of passes to see how the print quality changes. Is this a setting I toggle in Onyx? I can't seem to find where it is. Is...

I had no control over the settings so I don't know what they were using. I don't know of a machine either. Eventually we just resigned ourselves to buying the media in white and printing it black as opposed to laying enough white to obscure the base black. That does make me wonder what the...

Maybe it was cause we were printing on a black media, but a small banner of about 3'x6' was taking an hour and estimated to use like ~$25 of ink according to the RIP. We didn't even stick around for the whole print cause it was clearly a no-go. Anyways, I suggest the OP bring the most...

Does it take about 20 minutes to boot up for you as well? I'm still not use to how long it takes to boot. Mine also restarted itself at least once when I was navigating to the network menu, but that may be because we're running it off a residential 220 line at the moment.

Turning off the take-up would make sense... but would the printer know to start winding it when I tape it mid print? I read somewhere the dancer bar is what triggers the winding, so I guess I just have to try it. If I'm taping it mid-print, do you find it helpful to pause the print while taping...

I have to load my material using the flappy assist thing, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. But ya, it ends up with about 4 feet extending out and won't let me rewind. Its so long that I cant even tape it to the take up roll without cutting it.

We had the Mimaki demo'ed for us and the print took FOREVER because of the white underlayer. The total ink bill was also insane.

I'm still getting familiar with my 560 (it was a second hand) and it would extend out about 4 feet of material the last time I loaded it. I couldn't rewind it beyond a certain point either so it all went to waste. How are you only scrapping 6-10 inches?

How much was the system? Was it easy to install or did you need to hire someone?

I once saw a video (can't seem to find it now) where someone used a crowbar looking thing to pull the roll of media from within the cardboard tube it shipped in. Does anyone know what this product is and where to get it? That or something comparable? Foster seems to have a lot of stuff that...

How accurately are you able to cut? I have a problem where pulling the material for close alignment doesn't pull the entire material at once, so the image is a little distorted when its cut. I'm pulling by hand (the material is 63" long). I'm thinking of finding some very long material clamp...

This one would be hard to test, but has anyone noticed it fading in the sun faster? I think the OEM ink is 3-5 years unlaminated.

I've actually had a reseller tell me that the printer is pretty rugged and people often run it from garages and such. I'm currently doing the garage thing as we're a startup. There is a noticeable smell though, so even though its suppose to be free of fumes, you'll want ventilation. It's...

What do you use for your cutter? Since we are starting out, we bought a Foster table edge 100" and it didn't cut our material very well. I ended up building my own out of extruded aluminum and a line laser, and it works a lot better, but I can still end up being .1" off. I've been printing a...

Since Adobe is the more complex program to use, would it be better to flip that and run Linux in VM?